Micah 1:8-16

In the midst of turmoil we must raise our voices in protest and not hide our heads in the sand overlooking injustice.

God mourns our unfaithfulness.

Micah’s immediate response to God’s message was an overwhelming sense of dread. 

Micah’s words describe mourning rites in which outer garments were laid aside in deep humility. The mourning person thought no longer about himself but only about the calamity that had overcome his senses.

The distress of the prophet is a mirror of the distress of God. NKJ Bible.

Micah 1:8–16 (NKJV)

⁸ Therefore I will wail and howl,

I will go stripped and naked;

I will make a wailing like the jackals

And a mourning like the ostriches,

⁹ For her wounds are incurable.

For it has come to Judah;

It has come to the gate of My people—

To Jerusalem.

¹⁰ Tell it not in Gath,

Weep not at all;

In Beth Aphrah

Roll yourself in the dust.

¹¹ Pass by in naked shame, you inhabitant of Shaphir;

The inhabitant of Zaanan does not go out.

Beth Ezel mourns;

Its place to stand is taken away from you.

¹² For the inhabitant of Maroth pined for good,

But disaster came down from the Lord

To the gate of Jerusalem.

¹³ O inhabitant of Lachish,

Harness the chariot to the swift steeds

(She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion),

For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

¹⁴ Therefore you shall give presents to Moresheth Gath;

The houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.

¹⁵ I will yet bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah; 

The glory of Israel shall come to Adullam. 

¹⁶ Make yourself bald and cut off your hair,

Because of your precious children;

Enlarge your baldness like an eagle,

For they shall go from you into captivity.